Archive for June 2011

According to schedule the Zwitserleven Open Dutch Championship wil start at 14.30 h. There are two races planned for today, three for tomorrow and Friday. 84 competitors have registered for the Dutch Open. Most of them in the Open Class 1, about eleven in the Open Class 2.

The wind is strong, but not too strong. “Between 18 and 20 knots at this moment, a bit increasing to 23 knots in the afternoon. It wont be more than that, I guess. So no reason for cancelling the races of today, says Jeroen Tirion assistant to the race director. “So the conditions are perfect, nothing to worry about.

Choppy waves

At 13.00 h the current will change to the south, against the wind. Jeroen: “There will be short, choppy waves, but not to many throughs. Each race will be about 40 45 minutes, so its a good deal of racing this afternoon.

EvoSwitch is one of the nominees for the ICT environmental awards organized by ICT Office this upcoming Thursday. EvoSwitch was nominated after opening our data center Hall 5 at our Haarlem facilities. By using a new system for modular buildup of data centers and an improved cooling system our new halls have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.2 . This is 80% more efficient than the traditional data centers. Because of this EvoSwitch is one of the most energy and environmental friendly places to host your ICT or web environment in the Netherlands.

Other nominees in the same category are Microsoft, Logica and Getronics.

Amsterdams growing data center industry has been looking more closely at green technologies in recent years.Local provider Evoswitch, which has one of the largest data centers in The Netherlands, in Amsterdam, opened in 2006.Evoswitch managing director Eric Boonstra said since opening it has been looking at innovation with regards to data center technology to help it run more efficiently.

It is about more than cost leadership for our customers, there is law and regulation on the horizon for emissions (in The Netherlands), similar to the carbon credit scheme in the UK, Boonstra said.

Especially here in Amsterdam, the city is focussed on being one of the greenest cities in Europe and is focussed on the reduction efforts for carbon emissions) on data centers, which are one of the largest consumers of energy in the city.”

Furthermore, Boonstra said the Dutch government has also set rules for its own procurement, and is putting initiatives in place which mean the government will only deal with large businesses it feels are running in an efficient manner.

MORE IP is a 2 day conference aimed to discuss and project future developments and demands within the Internet industry and IP Interconnection in particular. It is an event for peering, wholesale business and Internet engineering professionals interested in forecasting and managing regional, national and global Internet infrastructure demands.

In the young but maturing and fast growing Internet industry, the need for higher capacity and quality is increasing manifold. AMS-IX unique launch of 100GE ports, Inter-IPX service and SLA’s will be presented, combined with topical presentations, guest speakers, discussion, debate panels on industry trends and developments. And of course as AMS-IX is known for, good networking opportunities with peers is part of the agenda.

A great selection of professionals from every related sector will be present and participating. From datacenters, transport carriers, Internet applications, mobile, cloud, gaming and content networks to the access, service and hosting providers that make up the AMS-IX community.

In cooperation with regional/International organizers of World IPv6 day an AMS-IX challenge of IPv6 traffic impact plus global statistics, live feed of presentations and updates will be linked to the Science Park in Amsterdam. As our members, customers, partners, and relations we welcome you to join us in celebrating the development, growth and challenges we face in managing MORE IP.

Jan Wiersma will be talking about the exponential growth of the internet and about running a CO2 Neutral operation.

The Online Cloud is becoming more and more important to our customers. And no wonder: this innovative piece of technology is a very cost effective hosting solution, giving you access to your data at any time, at any place. And seeing how Holland is one of the most important data exchange points in the world, its only natural that EvoSwitch has a booth at this important event.

We are living in times of quick change and innovation; communication is changing with services such as Twitter, WhatsApp and Ping, knowledge is at our fingertips with blogs and wikis used worldwide, and Cloud computing is giving us access to computer resources using a mouse click and a credit-card. This pace of innovation can also be seen in data center design. I believe we have seen more innovation in data center infrastructure in the past five years than we did the previous 15. A lot of this innovation is driven by the mega-service operators; delivering these cloud and social media services.

Welcome, we are glad you paid us a visit! We are very proud to announce that EvoSwitch Next Generation Datacenters will be a part of the world of Blogging as of today. EvoSwitch is soon to have a brand new website, and we are convinced that this isnt complete without a brand new blog.